Maybe Oracle wants to provide a plug'n'play cluster solution? With OS and relabelled hardware? If they got a good deal on the hardware from some vendor and the OS was pretty much free and controlled by them - then they would end up with more money in their pockets while the TCO for the customer would be reduced.
"Anyone who thinks talking is that distracting just can't drive."
You got that right. Take away their licenses and let them take the bus. All of a sudden, you saved thousands of lives, solved road congestion and did a huge favor to the environment!
I for one is very dissappointed that so few of the self-proclaimed "nerds" here know the difference between anectodal "evidence" and statistical evidence. Most of the people in this thread should stick to reading "People" magazine rather than Slashdot. Be very ashamed of yourselves, you ignoranumuses!
This is a good illustration of how evil the PC is as a gaming platform: If the development time is substantial, the ground you are standing on will change and your development efforts will be wasted.
If they had developed this title for a console, it would have been finished in much less time - since they would not have felt pressured into changing their underlying engine way too many times.. Heck, it might have been a dreamcast title!
Frankly, I prefer T9 and a smaller screen to a clunky PDA. And so do most people. The question is: What do most people use it? Do most people need it? Sorry, buddy, but the PDA is a niche product and the niche is growing smaller by the month.
Given that the development kits have been out there for a good while, and that we might for once see good hardware availability upon launch - I have a feeling the launch will be a sucesss. The game development studios all of a sudden have much more time to put the polish on their titles - and Sony might have time to make a new killer gadget like the eyetoy.
I mean, what killer games are there for the xbox360 anyway? It seems it's all rehashed games with upgraded graphics.
The departments are just waiting to be comprehensively attacked by some knuckleheads, so that their military industry sponsors can make money on further upgrading the war machine.
Oh come on! Do nuclear plants _have_ to pump water vapor into the air? No. I believe most (all?) don't pump water vapor into the air. Rather, they allow the vapor to liquidify into water (trapping the heat) and return it to the nature in its original state.
They've taken hydrogen as the energy carrier out of the equation. No wonder they end up with such a flawed conclusion!
The beauty of hydrogen as the energy carrier is that you can use wind power, solar power, all kinds of power to produce the energy that automobiles use. You can even install fuel cells in each house, removing the entire electriciy grid.
Nuclear power does not produce emissions that contribute to global warming. So, by replacing coal and oil as energy sources with nuclear power combined with hydrogen as energy carrier, we'll be able to shake the oil habit. That means less reliance upon the inherently unstable mid-east, and also reduced emissions. Plus a localised benefit: Cleaner air.
Let's think: They take the hit - lose 400 bucks per machine.
On each game they sell, they cash in x dollars. They have online gaming produce revenue. Their BluRay standard becomes the market leader - and they make y dollars on each BluRay disc they sell. Having BluRay succeed also makes them money elsewhere - in selling BluRay units and BluRay production systems.
Given the scale of the PS3 project, they might yet pull it off. However, it looks like they are betting the farm.
The PC platform is too complex, so the customers don't know whether the game will work with their computer or not. Do you have enough harddrive? Do you have a supported graphics card? Do you have sufficient processing power? Do you have enough RAM?
When you buy a console, you keep it for four-five years and buy games for it that are clearly labeled.
This simplicity is why the console wins.
Joe Sixpack don't wanna know about ATI Radeon Atomic SuperXXL 991213000. Or whatever they call 'em nowadays.
So what? If it comes with the required features, I'll still be able to make sure my product works with Oracle - without paying Oracle a dime. In my view, that's perfectly reasonable - since my customers will buy the expensive Oracle versions..
Your CEO and CTO probably already knew you and trusted you when they saw your body art. It's a bit different if you go to meetings with (potential) customers wearing very visible body art/modifications. Like it or not - not all people with money are open-minded. That's just the way it is.
Anyhow - milage differs. Some bosses are relatively narrow-minded and they may miss out on good talent (probably like you) by being narrow-minded. It's their loss. Others are more constructive in how they assess talent.
After all, you get a blu-ray player included in the price. But just a few.
Anyhow, I think the deciding factor for people who doubt will be the games. If the best games with the broadest appeal are available for the 360 at a lower price, then the 360 could stand to gain market share for playstation.
I for one might buy the PS3. Eventually. Being 29 years old, the latest and greatest is not as important as it was ten years ago.
If Red Hat or SuSE or anyone else disagree with Linux, they can simply produce and apply a patch to their own kernels while releasing the patch itself to the public.
This is one of the good aspects of open-source software: If you disagree, you can fork or simply distribute a patched product.
A 28-inch widescreen CRT. Nice for watching TV, acceptable for movies. Next I'll save up for a HDTV-resolution projector that I can use for movies and photo presentations.
Those 40-inch displays tend to dominate the room..
This introduces energy into the biosphere that would otherwise have stayed below ground. Given that we already have diminished the ability of our planet to rid itself of excess energy through adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, would this really be a good idea?
I'd rather we trapped energy the earth aborbs from the sun, like solar power, wave power, hydroelectric power etc.
Actually, the idea of external auditors is a good idea. The leadership of the organization being audited will not be able to use intimidation etc to make the auditors let a couple of unacceptable practises go unmentioned.
Rather, the output from the audit must be taken seriously. It seems rather curious that an agency can receive failing grades over and over without anyone forcing the agency to take effective measures.
Yes - some improved, but why didn't the rest of 'em? But hey - if I was an Al Qaeda operative, I would certainly thank the auditors for pointing out the inherently weak links..
Microsoft has as far as I understand two cash cows: Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
Now both of those are being challenged by open software.
Microsoft Windows is being challenged by both Linux and Mac. Windows is still king, but Mac is gaining popularity and Linux is becoming ever easier to use. I think Windows will lose substantial market share over the next 3 years or so.
Microsoft Office is also being challenged. Open Office has come along nicely. A main threat here is the fact that users don't use more than a few percent of all the functionality within Microsoft Office. They pay for stuff they don't use or need. Once Open Office comes with some really slick templates and default fonts, I bet it will gain popularity. I think Open Office will start stealing license money in the not too distant future. The 2.0 release is coming up, and then that will become really good after a few minor updates.
Once profits decline for Office and Windows, Microsoft will lose a lot of its current freedom to waste money. They will need to be more focused. Given the impression they have a nasty case of infighting already, this focusing will not happen. They will instead continue to decline.
North Korea and Iran are both much worthier adversaries than Iraq was.
Their armies are bigger and better trained than those of Iraq. In the case of North Korea, they also claim to have the bomb. North Korea has a large army, lots of special troops and spend 22 percent of their GDP on the military. Attacking North Korea will be extremely difficult and expensive. That is probably a large part of the reason why the US has shied away from confrontation and allowed NK to continue its game towards the nuclear bomb.
Actually, talk'n'drive without a handsfree is a pretty common cause of traffic incidents and kills quite a few people a year.
In Europe, it's illegal to talk'n'drive without a handsfree in quite a few countries (Norway, and Great Britain as well if I recall correctly - plus all the ones I don't know about)
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Maybe Oracle wants to provide a plug'n'play cluster solution? With OS and relabelled hardware? If they got a good deal on the hardware from some vendor and the OS was pretty much free and controlled by them - then they would end up with more money in their pockets while the TCO for the customer would be reduced.
Does this make sense?
"Anyone who thinks talking is that distracting just can't drive."
You got that right. Take away their licenses and let them take the bus. All of a sudden, you saved thousands of lives, solved road congestion and did a huge favor to the environment!
I for one is very dissappointed that so few of the self-proclaimed "nerds" here know the difference between anectodal "evidence" and statistical evidence. Most of the people in this thread should stick to reading "People" magazine rather than Slashdot. Be very ashamed of yourselves, you ignoranumuses!
This is a good illustration of how evil the PC is as a gaming platform: If the development time is substantial, the ground you are standing on will change and your development efforts will be wasted.
If they had developed this title for a console, it would have been finished in much less time - since they would not have felt pressured into changing their underlying engine way too many times.. Heck, it might have been a dreamcast title!
Frankly, I prefer T9 and a smaller screen to a clunky PDA. And so do most people. The question is: What do most people use it? Do most people need it? Sorry, buddy, but the PDA is a niche product and the niche is growing smaller by the month.
Now what do we need the PDA for? Really? Stop being so backwards, PDA fan boys!
Given that the development kits have been out there for a good while, and that we might for once see good hardware availability upon launch - I have a feeling the launch will be a sucesss. The game development studios all of a sudden have much more time to put the polish on their titles - and Sony might have time to make a new killer gadget like the eyetoy.
I mean, what killer games are there for the xbox360 anyway? It seems it's all rehashed games with upgraded graphics.
The departments are just waiting to be comprehensively attacked by some knuckleheads, so that their military industry sponsors can make money on further upgrading the war machine.
Oh come on! Do nuclear plants _have_ to pump water vapor into the air? No. I believe most (all?) don't pump water vapor into the air. Rather, they allow the vapor to liquidify into water (trapping the heat) and return it to the nature in its original state.
They've taken hydrogen as the energy carrier out of the equation. No wonder they end up with such a flawed conclusion!
The beauty of hydrogen as the energy carrier is that you can use wind power, solar power, all kinds of power to produce the energy that automobiles use. You can even install fuel cells in each house, removing the entire electriciy grid.
Nuclear power does not produce emissions that contribute to global warming. So, by replacing coal and oil as energy sources with nuclear power combined with hydrogen as energy carrier, we'll be able to shake the oil habit. That means less reliance upon the inherently unstable mid-east, and also reduced emissions. Plus a localised benefit: Cleaner air.
Let's think: They take the hit - lose 400 bucks per machine.
On each game they sell, they cash in x dollars.
They have online gaming produce revenue.
Their BluRay standard becomes the market leader - and they make y dollars on each BluRay disc they sell. Having BluRay succeed also makes them money elsewhere - in selling BluRay units and BluRay production systems.
Given the scale of the PS3 project, they might yet pull it off. However, it looks like they are betting the farm.
The PC platform is too complex, so the customers don't know whether the game will work with their computer or not. Do you have enough harddrive? Do you have a supported graphics card? Do you have sufficient processing power? Do you have enough RAM?
When you buy a console, you keep it for four-five years and buy games for it that are clearly labeled.
This simplicity is why the console wins.
Joe Sixpack don't wanna know about ATI Radeon Atomic SuperXXL 991213000. Or whatever they call 'em nowadays.
That would be really neat - sit down by your computer, and the drive you wear pops up on the screen!
So what? If it comes with the required features, I'll still be able to make sure my product works with Oracle - without paying Oracle a dime. In my view, that's perfectly reasonable - since my customers will buy the expensive Oracle versions..
Your CEO and CTO probably already knew you and trusted you when they saw your body art. It's a bit different if you go to meetings with (potential) customers wearing very visible body art/modifications. Like it or not - not all people with money are open-minded. That's just the way it is.
Anyhow - milage differs. Some bosses are relatively narrow-minded and they may miss out on good talent (probably like you) by being narrow-minded. It's their loss. Others are more constructive in how they assess talent.
After all, you get a blu-ray player included in the price. But just a few.
Anyhow, I think the deciding factor for people who doubt will be the games. If the best games with the broadest appeal are available for the 360 at a lower price, then the 360 could stand to gain market share for playstation.
I for one might buy the PS3. Eventually. Being 29 years old, the latest and greatest is not as important as it was ten years ago.
If Red Hat or SuSE or anyone else disagree with Linux, they can simply produce and apply a patch to their own kernels while releasing the patch itself to the public.
This is one of the good aspects of open-source software: If you disagree, you can fork or simply distribute a patched product.
PS3 will have two HDTV outputs. This will no doubt lead to a VR solution, either by Sony or by someone else.
A 28-inch widescreen CRT. Nice for watching TV, acceptable for movies. Next I'll save up for a HDTV-resolution projector that I can use for movies and photo presentations.
Those 40-inch displays tend to dominate the room..
This introduces energy into the biosphere that would otherwise have stayed below ground. Given that we already have diminished the ability of our planet to rid itself of excess energy through adding greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, would this really be a good idea?
I'd rather we trapped energy the earth aborbs from the sun, like solar power, wave power, hydroelectric power etc.
Actually, the idea of external auditors is a good idea. The leadership of the organization being audited will not be able to use intimidation etc to make the auditors let a couple of unacceptable practises go unmentioned.
Rather, the output from the audit must be taken seriously. It seems rather curious that an agency can receive failing grades over and over without anyone forcing the agency to take effective measures.
Yes - some improved, but why didn't the rest of 'em? But hey - if I was an Al Qaeda operative, I would certainly thank the auditors for pointing out the inherently weak links..
Microsoft has as far as I understand two cash cows: Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.
Now both of those are being challenged by open software.
Microsoft Windows is being challenged by both Linux and Mac. Windows is still king, but Mac is gaining popularity and Linux is becoming ever easier to use. I think Windows will lose substantial market share over the next 3 years or so.
Microsoft Office is also being challenged. Open Office has come along nicely. A main threat here is the fact that users don't use more than a few percent of all the functionality within Microsoft Office. They pay for stuff they don't use or need. Once Open Office comes with some really slick templates and default fonts, I bet it will gain popularity. I think Open Office will start stealing license money in the not too distant future. The 2.0 release is coming up, and then that will become really good after a few minor updates.
Once profits decline for Office and Windows, Microsoft will lose a lot of its current freedom to waste money. They will need to be more focused. Given the impression they have a nasty case of infighting already, this focusing will not happen. They will instead continue to decline.
North Korea and Iran are both much worthier adversaries than Iraq was.
Their armies are bigger and better trained than those of Iraq. In the case of North Korea, they also claim to have the bomb. North Korea has a large army, lots of special troops and spend 22 percent of their GDP on the military. Attacking North Korea will be extremely difficult and expensive. That is probably a large part of the reason why the US has shied away from confrontation and allowed NK to continue its game towards the nuclear bomb.
Actually, talk'n'drive without a handsfree is a pretty common cause of traffic incidents and kills quite a few people a year.
In Europe, it's illegal to talk'n'drive without a handsfree in quite a few countries (Norway, and Great Britain as well if I recall correctly - plus all the ones I don't know about)
If there is a unique key (like an ID), it should be able to automatically use that for counting - but it doesn't.